Application Spotlight: Hexapod Provides Motion Control for Stellar Applications
Scientific instruments, space flight simulators, and intergalactic telescopes demand out-of-this-world speed and accuracy in motion control. New Hampshire's Mikrolar Inc. delivers this performance for customers like NASA, Boeing, and university researchers worldwide, using robotic hexapods that vary from tabletop size to 20 feet tall. Their success secret is a partnership with a manufacturer of motion control systems that is uncommonly diverse, including a selection of servo systems so wide it can move anything from ounces to tons with equal precision and reliability.
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00:00:32 if you're looking to create an application with a robot that is outside of the boundaries of what people typically do with robots in force control or in accelerations or speeds we're the kind of company that can help them produce those types of results if you have to move something that a traditional system can't do a hexapod really works out well it fits a lot of
00:00:57 solutions for people stiffness speed versatility today we're working on something the size of a coke can and tomorrow we're working on something that speech is plenty feet in the air and so if I can buy the same motors and the same cables in the same amps in the same controller and handle both of those problems it's a great relief for us they have a large breadth to the product
00:01:36 line and so that I don't have to do a lot of new things to stretch we're using 100 watt motors the fact that this machine requires a 750 watt motor we don't have to go test that we have the confidence that if it's in there it's gonna do the job we support other controllers but yes Kali everybody's heard of it and comfort level was immediate it's a very comfortable
00:02:05 conversation with companies like the masses of the Boeing's is that the sky was already in their building they already have those reps that see them every day and so we don't have to teach them anything new when we bring the robot into their building as a small company in Michael our and you're trying to move forward into your future you have to decide who you want to bring
00:02:29 with what type of tools you have to bring with you a company like the Scylla is perfect because as we are growing we know they're going to be growing as we're still there we know they're going to still be there and we know that they're going to be solving problems that we're going to need to solve and so they're a perfect partner to bring with us as we grow